[#BloombergLP-ball-AsyncFileObserver-isPublicationThreadRunning] = xref:BloombergLP.adoc[BloombergLP]::xref:BloombergLP/ball.adoc[ball]::xref:BloombergLP/ball/AsyncFileObserver.adoc[AsyncFileObserver]::isPublicationThreadRunning :relfileprefix: ../../../ :mrdocs: Return `true` if a publication thread is running, and `false` otherwise. Note that records received by the `publish` method will still be added to the record queue even if there is no publication thread running. == Synopsis Declared in `<ball_asyncfileobserver.h>` [source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"] ---- bool isPublicationThreadRunning() const; ---- [.small]#Created with https://www.mrdocs.com[MrDocs]#